Public Service Radio

Public Service Radio broadcasters are not allowed to advertise. They get their money from the government who collects a TV license fee in the UK. The TV licence is £145.50 per year, an estimate of £25 a year gets took from a household that has a TV license every year.

The BBC charter is to educate, entertain and inform.

The BBC is the largest single employer in the radio industry employing 11,000 people to provide its portfolio of national and local services. These exist of 11 national services (including the World Service), and a range of more local stations:

·    40 Local Radio stations in the English Regions – with plans to create a further four.

·        Six dedicated radio services in the Nations – Radio Scotland, Radio Nan Gaidheal, Radio Ulster, Radio Foyle, Radio Wales, and Radio Cymru.

  11 national stations: Radio 1, 1xtra, 2, 3, 6 are music based; Radio 4, 5 live, 5 live sports extra, BBC 7 and the World Service are speech-based; and the BBC Asian Network a mix of both. 

Radio 1 is for my age range of (15 - 29), it plays mostly new chart music but also new music that has just came out but not on the charts. There are a lot of different radios fo the different type of music the audience listen to. They have to provide the right kind of music to suit everyone, because they get money took from their lisence.